Mathematician:Hassler Whitney

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Mathematician

American mathematician who worked mainly in topology.


Wolf Prize

Hassler Whitney was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {1982}$:

For his fundamental work in algebraic topology, differential geometry and differential topology.


Nationality

American


History

  • Born: 23 March 1907, New York, USA
  • Died: 10 May 1989, Mount Dents Blanches, Switzerland


Theorems and Definitions

Results named for Hassler Whitney can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Hassler Whitney can be found here.


Publications

  • 1948: On Ideals of Differentiable Functions


Sources